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...shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young attaché of the Loner machine like Herbert Christenberry, brother of the Senator's Washington secretary, makes a speech promising them all a home, an automobile, a radio, $5,000 in cash, an income of not less than $2,500 a year, old-age pension, a free university education for their children-as soon...
...American soul beneath the sectional variations which he defines so accurately. The American heart that is not contented asks, "How?", not "Why?". The why of Fredonia, the generic term for the land of the United States, is lost beyond the last long hills over which the soul of Trist Loner ran its ghostly last. In a hurry to tell the news. That is American, Trist's hurry to tell the news, old news that is new in a young land...
During the 290 years of its existence Harvard has stood a tower of conservative liberalism. Liberalism in thought education, politics, religion. Not for nothing was the Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow...